Plans for the new Gilcrease Museum show a modern facility meant to reconnect people to its natural surroundings. That includes color palettes drawn from
The Gilcrease Museum has unveiled designs for an expansion of the 72-year-old Tulsa institution as part of a redevelopment plan meant to give its 350 years of collected history an upgraded 21st-century relevance. The plan will add improved exhibition space for the city-owned museum.
Society s Cage by SmithGroup: 2020 Best of Year Winner for Design Unity
February 8, 2021
Photography by Alan Karchmer.
In the wake of the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, SmithGroup principal Dayton Schroeter and associate Julian Arrington felt compelled to respond. They wanted to help Americans understand that the killings weren’t isolated events, but part of a 400-year history of systemic racism. The designers conceived of a public installation called Society s Cage, temporarily erected on the National Mall last summer, based on research into four categories: Black executions; incarceration; death by police; and death by lynching. A 15-foot cube of 484 rusted steel rods presented their findings. On each side of the structure, hanging rods of different lengths formed a simplified graph of the sobering data. “It is literally the shape of institutional racism,” Schroeter notes. Inside, the piece hollowed out into a jagged void, with rods becoming obstacles symbolic
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